[LM24 Race] 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours Race Thread

[ederss7]

Was that another tyre blowout, this time in the middle of the Porsche curves?

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by ederss7

Was that another tyre blowout, this time in the middle of the Porsche curves?

Nah it's missing the entire wheel. Whole wheel has detached.

[TF110]

Originally Posted by gert

Then it's even more worrying they didn't believe Buemi and/or couldn't see anything on telemetry.

He didn't say the brake were overheating though. That only became apparent at the pits it seemed.

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by ederss7

Was that another tyre blowout, this time in the middle of the Porsche curves?

No, wheel

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by TF110

He didn't say the brake were overheating though. That only became apparent at the pits it seemed.

But the team did say the telemetry was fine. Something somewhere was wrong and they didn't have eyes on it. So there's a blind spot somewhere in the system.

[airbusA346]

Did Toyota just say front motor issue?

[bjohnsonsmith]

#64 Corvette's managed to get back to its garage.

[JHamilton]

It's like watching my college football team lose... still got the #3. Bowties.

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[broadrun96]

Taking apart the windscreen and everything on the #8 Toyota now? Gonna be a long one like the Porsche stop.

That's a lot of free gravel the Vette brought in

[MaskedRacer]

1st through 11th in GTE pro only 37 seconds apart after 8 hours?!

[TF110]

The brake wouldn't be hot because it was cooled on the straights? It seems it's an mgu issue actually.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by TF110

The brake wouldn't be hot because it was cooled on the straights? It seems it's an mgu issue actually.

You're exactly right, it's the front motor unit.

[Skemer]

I remember someone explaining the energy recovery sytem and specifically it's layout could generate brakesytem overheating issues.

[TF110]

The #9 passed the #1 in the pits, so now it's minutes behind instead of a whole lap from second place.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Skemer

I remember someone explaining the energy recovery sytem and specifically it's layout could generate brakesytem overheating issues.

If your energy recovery system isn't working properly then you'll work the brake disc too hard, and it'll very quickly destroy it in one way or another. But this is the motor unit, so more about power deployment. Its all packaged together though.

[gert]

#64 back out

[broadrun96]

I know I'm in the minority, but hearing that Toyota launch away under electric is impressive as hell.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

I know I'm in the minority, but hearing that Toyota launch away under electric is impressive as hell.

Nah man I love that. It's so so cool. I'd have them do the whole pit lane on electric power and fire on the exit line. Don't like the new 1km regs but I love the electric take off.

[Akrapovic]

Assuming the 8 loses the same time as the 2, both cars have enough time to recover to ahead of the P2 cars. That might be important by the end of this race.

[joeb]

WEC blaming an outside attack on their website issues.

[airbusA346]

FIA WEC are saying they have suffered several unknown cyber attacks today.

[Articus]

92 Porsche for 2nd place in Pro. Christensen has been on fire

[tux]

#92 and #67 really going at it, contact on the Mulsanne.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by joeb

WEC blaming an outside attack on their website issues.

Yeah. DDOS attack because more than 6 people tried to use it at once.

[Articus]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Yeah. DDOS attack because more than 6 people tried to use it at once.